Hello,

i was wandering about strange folders created in the root directory of my Cygwin-Enhanced PCs and found out that everytime i start installer programs from within a cygwin shell, a folder called %USERPROFILE% is created
in the base directory of the pc's harddisk.

I found out that if i start a command-shell from windows there is an environment variable called "%USERPROFILE%" which points to the current logged in users directory. In cygwin-shells this variable is missing.

So everytime a windows-process tries to access the current users profile-dir (to store some ini's or whatever), the variable does not resolve but will be taken literal, so this directory will be created. In other words: %USERPROFILE% does not point to "c:\WINNT\Profiles\username", resp. "%SystemRoot%\Profiles\username" like it should. The effect is that the installer will fail, which is very bad if running "silent" setups.

To avoid this i've set $USERPROFILE to the appropriate profile-directory for the users in his .profile in cygwin's /home/username. This seems to work, but do i make something wrong ? Is there a better way to do this ? Are there any environment-variables or programs to resolve the current users Windows-Profile-Directory, instead of setting
it literally in .profile ?


Regards,

Oliver Geisen
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